Django REST Framework

[Max Nathaniel Ho]

Hi all,

I just came across Django REST Framework. From what I have read up so far, its a Web API framework.

What does it do and what is the difference between this and the regular Django Web Framework?

Thanks! 

[Russell Keith-Magee]

Hi Max,

Django ReST Framework, as the name suggests, is a framework for building ReST APIs in Django.

It's not officially part of the Django framework, but it's creator and principle maintainer - Tom Christie - is a member of the Django core team. Tom recently held a Kickstarter to fund v3 of the framework; that Kickstarter was extraordinarily successful due to the support of the community.

If you need to write a ReSTful API for your Django app, it's well worth your time to take a look at it.

Yours,

Russ Magee %-)

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[Max Nathaniel Ho]

Hi Russell,

Thanks for your reply. As I am fairly new to django and programming in general, do you mind sharing what REST APIs actually do? Thank you!

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[Andreas Kuhne]

Hi Max,

I think you should really just google it a bit and read about it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer is a good start.

A simplified version is that a REST API allows you to get information about your database models in a structured and predictive way. HOW the API should behave is also documented.

You wouldn't use it for presenting information on the web, but rather for connecting to your backend via javascript or connecting 2 different projects over the Internet.

Regards,

Andréas

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[Max Nathaniel Ho]

Hi Andreas,

Thank you. Will read up!

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[Lachlan Musicman]

The way I always describe APIs (in a broad, general sense) is:

Image internet service "Twotter" had posts, and each post had a date.

If they had a date API you might be able to get all of the posts for a
month like:

for month in months:
return "https://twotter.org/%s" %month

and then you could see all the twotter posts for the month "month".

Of course, it could be any variable on any model - gender or length or
a boolean or whatever

Cheers
L.

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[Max Nathaniel Ho]

Hi Lachlan,

Simple and clear explanation. Thanks!

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